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_ fieeramentans lok ott wpon the® warring
~. elements, with an inquiring and’ anxious eye.
“J find on conversing with some of the prominent-citizens of Sacramento that honesty
-¢omnpels theut to say the Capital ought never
: "adininsion that might net be expected from
. Shwe to whiom the Capital is of vital iniport:Anee,
__ . Convention of to-day
former knowledge by a cons
to. the Legislature to-day. Some of its suggestions are good. but somehow it is a ‘little
retrenchment:
i* . and reform have been awakened just as he
. . is closing « two years’ téem and his political .
is suggested, why did he not discover that
the
2
constitutivnal mode.
= markable that his ideas of
enemies are
members of the Legislature was
. of the Supreme
Court made too much for his services, that
. the cost of collecting the revenue was fir too
great, and so forth, some little time ago that
his own friends mght have the benefit af his
retrenching suggestions? His Aececidency
might be'considered impertinent did not the
“diiggeations to the Legislature. In my view
of the case the “Husiness of the out-going
Governor is to communicate facts to the Leg.
nected with the workings of the. Governcongtitution requiré him te communicate his .
ment—ledving questions of policy and sug. .
our informant.
of news:
washed away.
the 8pot_where
important items of intelligenee were received ot a late hour last (Sup . !y-by
day) night from Sacramente by way of Fo!lett Folsom at about 6 P.M, yesterday,
eS ee ¢ tie nee
‘Telegraph, Mr. Obristy. Depu erift o
Sacramento aang. pe the sealncior of
the Railroad, arrived at Folsom, from whom
except the condemned
sweeping everything off. :
Since the fall of the American_river, the .
obtained the following items
Every bridge between Auburn and Felsom
‘¢ Bar Bridge has been”
~— Also every bridge between Folsom and
Placerville is gone, and there is po communication betweea-thoag places.
Stockton's Miils have be ea
abd not a vestige remains of them to mark
The water at these Mills had reached to
the.seeond story: ot the building, and it is beewept away.
‘. dieved that it might have been saved, had it
not been for the large amount of drift: : od floating down,which ¢ame in contact ‘i islature of the new administration—facte con-, haw te x ah oa stu
with> irresistible force,
fares, by reason of mud and
ef of the House to-day appointhis pages aud porters, and now the Legis~~~ qdature tay be said to be fairly under way.—
“Tho session of to-day washiief, both Houses
adjourning in honor of the battle of New Ordeans. To-morrow the votes for Governor
‘Lieutenant Governor will be canvassed
iw joint convention, and the inauguration: of
Gov. Styntord will take place, itis expected,
on Friday. Owing to the horrid condition
Of the streeta, or the places where streets
~ alsed to be, there will be ne chance for much.
parade on the occasion, and probably the mily willbeinvisible. The inauguration ball is
_@lemeney ofthe wenther,” and probably a
Aqueamistoess on the part of Sacrameritans
"to hear fiddling while-they are drowning.
Sacramento offers one ofthe finest fields in
Mess of Darvin’s theory of the origin of
true we may cougestions for the future to be discussed and
settled hy those whom the people have des‘ignated latest for the. purpose, The message
6! Governor Downey will reach you as soon
as this, through the newspapers of this city.
His views on national-affeirs are of that gobetween order that entitle him to the eontempt of Union men and rebels. I may take
occasion hereafter to make texte of some of
his disguised disuuion sentiments. Governor
Downey is played out. He is weak; illiterate,
double-faced, vain and pusillaninrous, and
owes whatever of importaneehe may have
possessed to cpernnres position and
the whim of a sadly in want of good
material —" eS
T learn-that the new Governor will not be
inaugurated until Saturday. In the meantime the raiti comes down steadily without
intermission, while & warm soatherly wind
in blowing all the whilé, indicative of but little snow falling in the mountains and--the
prospect of another flood. Aséending the
Whter Work's building to-day I obtained a
good view of the surrounding country, It
is alinoat completely stbmerged, and the tel.
i race ‘some yoare
#ent in1@ second with Bell at the head
vestern ideaof * powerful weak,”
mpased of a lawyer or two, a few
who have rubbed their heads against a law
Dook sufficient to acquire the scent of calfakin, and others who know nothing of law at
all. Tt is the most important Committee of
all and ought’ to be composed of lawyers
alone if they are te be found in the Assembly.
egraph tells us of bridges being ¢wept away .
between this and Placerville, the streams
wising higher than ever before. The telegraph also informs us of heavy rains in all
the northern parts of the State, and the fears
of another deluge arg indulged by 4 great
many. Itis not impossible that Gov. Stanford’s indiguration may be attended in boats.
F fiud a ‘few Sacramentans willing to ac.
knowledge thatthe Capital ought never to
have boen brought here. They are exceptions, however, to the general rule of stub:
bornness and unreason, The Icelanders have
& proverb that “Iceland is the best country
on which the sun shines” The Sacramenpeople have not sent
the Legislature the proper matwhich» good judiciary commitiee
Tn that case the fault lies ab
tither than at Speaker Barsapeaking tho Members of the
are a promising set, They are
“hot addicted to the vice of
good intentions in thia-respect
‘the abeonce of the pay.
" flome « » Whfeeling has been
@bown by employment by Dr. Warren,
the Controller, of Elam Covington asa clerk
in his.aflite. Covington was formerly an ocThis ) another report that he is a fineness liabbanaiaiaathiscinssassarsieaioledcas bar teottae oe I
; violence anything we ha itnessed.
the kno Bore aie telead ace tere ntae: . Om Tuceday and Wedaesday it rae a
na eds bers are turoed Sor the T oo: wal
with the duties of his of putting the fund for
ig "Thay ie bate cffended by stinks inaumersble. But there
Francisco in less-than a week.
General Fund t
. will there be till ma
only recourse is the ae
hom Governor having
. to some
tans. are equally-eenfident in their belief: that:
there is no other spot on the coast fit for the
Capital of the State. Should the inud jise
to their eyes they would assert “ the crossings are high and dry” and “there is'nt going
to be much of @ shower.”
There is an almost general wish among:
Legisinters to get out of this gough of des.
and on to some spot of sold earth,
Where the feet could be relieved of this hor.
rible mire end slush, and the pose no longer
ure a great many new men m the Legislature
who are loath to tovch the Capital question
through fear of the: howling Sacramento
and lier appeals for sympathy. Nevertheless
the feeling in favor uf removal to San Francisco is exceedingly strong and is likely to
break outin section at any moment. ‘The
readers of the TRANSCRIPT need not be astonished if the Legislature departs for San
The Government must-have’ money or its
wheels-are ‘stopped. There is none in the
pay current expenses, nor
months se. The
weunp Land Fund, and
g alluded to the fact in
that thirty odd thanaand dollars
had been spent already out of the fund and
present.
. the rocks. a lon
mill steed.__—
large hole
‘aaniens by the
3
woman and a chi
“was saved+
over all the le
seen.
two theusand
relief visible.
their hands.
In the Orleans
of
packed together,
titute of wearin
weatber.
the entire stacks
At the
sembly Hall.
to San Francisco.
All the frame
street have been
ing ingress to the
It ia supposed
The current ps
tie streets, and n
favored with
from below beto
if > do them
y¥ going u
Auburn, and ook
water.
creased to such a
heavy wachinery can be seen lodged upon
ing been broken in the north
‘Pre American river, at Folsom, had fallen
about twenty feet, and it is thought that had
it continued up to its highest mark but a few
hours longer, thebridge could not have withstood the presstire.:
The cars-can runas far as Patterson's Station, ten miles below Folsém, but the Superintendent intends having the track repaired
a far as Brighton Station to-day; i
A. short distance below Patterson's, is a
small dwelling heuse, in which wae a man, a
in his arms, escaped from the building and
building was drowned,
A lithe city of Sacramento, the water is
The water is five feet above the first floor.
of the St. George Hotel, in which—there are
people quartered,
ly any of the necessaries of life.
~ “Starvation is staring these’ unfortunates in
the face, and there are nesigns of immediate
The water in the Orleans Hotel. is \-yithin
five feet of the ceiling overhead, and People
havigate the bar-room in boate, Pp
them by shoving against the ceiling with
rsons—men, women and children—~
plorable condition ; many of them bein
Screen them from the. inelemency of the
The water at the corner of Sixth and J
streets, where Booth & Co., and Lindley &
Weaver and other steres ure situate .
withiv two feet of the to
be ruined. No one dares enter the buildings.
yipito’l the water ig run
the fleora ok the ‘Renate Chamber
The Inauguration of Leland Stanford took
place, after which the Legisliture
There is scarcely any possibility of obtain.
lost, bat at is impossible te ascertain anything
definite!y-in regard to the number or who are
the unfortunate oues until the water recedes.
strong that it is difficult to minage boats in
From preggnt. indications, we will not Be“Te Wapapers or mail matter,
nothing can be seen except one vast sheet of
Tue STORM:—The storm whieh comsatin. after
tmenced on Tuesday last, continued with considerable force ‘wiitil Thursday, when it iag distance below where the
In the mills were 150 tons ef-grain, which
is a total loss. There was also in the @ill
100 tons of flour, a amall
which was saved, ee
The Railroad bridge, at Folsom, is still
standing, but is_
portion only of
in@ damaged condition=a
action of the water,
Id. The man, with the child
8, and there ‘is no land tu be
with searcethere are a large number
and all arein a most de:
dey& apparel and bedding to
s of the dvors, and
Of oO 8 are supposed to
over
Asadjourned
buildings east of Twelfth
swept away,
city or egress when there.
that many lives have been
ssing through the city is so
wny have been ca sized
W eduesday or Thuraday,
one of the high hills, near
ing down upon the valley,
degree that it exceeded in
[va
ms ae
own eyes, the immense
down the canon. —
: [ _ Amerilefican river into the ditch,
vas Citried awa three “qniattefa of a
mile, together with the dam. The loss is
very heavy and will be severely felt, not onthe stockholders but by the miners, as
they_will not be able to reeonstruct the inured portion until the river gets down to or
near low ¥ mark.
The water to.gupply this-ditch is taken.
out near-Tamarhoand then conducted
along down the banks ofthe river, supplying
miners upon the various bare, until it reaches a short distance below Doteun’s Bar,
where the water-is-divided—one half being
conducted across the river on a_ wire~guspension bridge, and supplies thet section of
setts-Flat. The main ditch extends down
the river, Gut gradilly fids its way. to tie
ridge until it reaches’ Rise Springs, wher
it diverges off into various directions. and
supplies the miners all through thut part of
the country, and ae far down 4% Sailor Bar,
10 or 12 miles from: Sacramento, below
which point there tippitirs to be no. diggings.
this mishap, will not fall far short of whe
thousand. RP Ree ee
Arrivals at N tional Exchange
GEO. Ri LANCASTER, PROPRIET OR
-___ + JaupakY, th EWw MoCardys Bacra'to RH Farquhar,.Eliza
EY Cu ; Red Dog J Pollard, F Corrél
EC re, do.. F McBean, Wash’n
M St eld, do A Mason, do
AI Adot do W W Cozzens, LY
W ABegole,. do M rp do
GW Foster, eo ain mans, kon
N Jacobs. — den, lo
Geo Jacobs. ~ a G Morgen: Moore’s
W L Flagier, B Tent E Rienduu, do
Mrs Stone, do 4 Haddin.G Valley
A Brown;: City JS Humpres, H’buz
ae seem, sine a eA " aio.
ompson, do \ SP
GW Hilt, “do Hf Leeker, <Q Hil
Geo EClark, .do DMLinn, ~ Ht Pat
H-M Taylor, G Valley: J G Page,
. J Stone, do M Dwyer, ~
Dunston, do
between that pomt and Meesaehn>>
Itis estimated -that the°number of miners }
that will be thrown out of employment by, befere
Bread Street, Sevatas
NBS te SRN NO ATI Ok NOL
To P
eee
DR. HOSTETTE: Stomach Bitters.
restorative ill once more become steady and
strong. Inthe debility which follows violent
fever ; in diarrhoea, dysentery, dyspeptic comPlaints and cholic <in the weakness consequent
upon natural decay, or resulting from free living
or over exercion, and alsoin these painful “and
too much neglected ailments to which hidies are
exclusively subject, the Bitters tever fail to give
E. F. SPENCE,
Pe wis reg eG 7
Nev city, California. ce
‘ m0 FS
MONS,—State. of California, Township
unty of Nevada, sa. Justices’_Coygrt,
. W. Smith, J-P.The the
Stat. of California, tc JOSEPH LEONARD.
summoned re hereb: : to appear
ps In Justice of the Peace, at his office.in
said Township, on Saturday the i2th day of
April, A.B. 1 at Bo 7 A. M., to answer
to the Com) tof . ‘Pa
an rge ne, usteer of the Blue Tent
Church, who demand of you the sum ef $15,000,
an eomplaint, now on file ~_—_ office, On.
be rendered agiinst yeu for the said sum cf
15,0034 dailies and pan oe et ne
siven er my hand this of January,
A. D. 1862. . : E W. saith, A ae
and it appear therefrom, plaintiffs. have
a good cause of action against the above named
defendant, and that said defendant is a non-resident of the State of California. It is hereby ordered that service of Summons herein be made
by publicaaon in the Dathy Mouninc TRANSCRIPT, & newspaper published in Nevada county at — Once, a week, for a period of three
_ Given under my hand this 8th day of January;
‘As D., 1862.
E. W. SMITH, Justice of the Peace.
CHEAP
ena
IMPORTANT NOTIC
S. HAAS & CO.
ee
CREAT REDUCTION
Will sell Boots from $1,00 to. 81,50.
Cheaper than any She Store in town.
Steel Heel, Full Calf Boote for $5.00 per pair.
A good Nailed Boot from’$3,00 to $5,00,
Ladies Shoes in Ppreportion.
Nevada, Dec. 2ist,
ESTRAY.
(“se into the stable of the snbseriber on
the 13th jast., TWO MULES. The own.
er can have the same proving and
paying charges. Sonne Pate ON,
. or i é
Jan l5th.—3w. . Spring St. Nevada.
UMMONS.—State of California, County of
Nevada, ss. District Court of the F urteenth
LAND filed against you and John livery within
J. ©. BIRDSEYE,
. . BOOT AND SHOE STORE.
_. WILLIAM SHAFER. .
OCommerctal Street, Nevada
CS bs
be satisficd ‘that there is a Cheap
os 7 store in the town. ane
ners, . your sare Tr an Ou Wir
economy call on SHARPER aad buy a
+ your attention is called to his stock
Repairing.—Partieular attention given to
this teaneh the busiuess. a
_ Give me a call and satisfy yourselves.
‘WM. SHEFER.
Nevada, Dee. 17#h—tf s :
GEORGE W. KIDD, ©
Gus DUST Purchased at the Highest Market Rates, and liberal advances made on Dust
a for Assay or for Coinage atthe U.S
one on San Francis¢o and Sacramento
" on the Cities at the Lowest Rates
& M FELTON.
BIRDSEYE & Co.,
NO. 30 Main street, Nevada City.
URCHASE Gold Durt. Advance on Dust
for Assay or Coinage at the U.S. Mint.
Judicial District-of said State. Tlie People of; Draw Sight Checks on San Francisco, Sacrathe State of California, to MATHEW CR WE, . mento and Marysville.
Greeting. cam Our Sight Exchange on New York.
Yew are hereby summoned to r and anHighest paid for County Scrip.
ewer to the. of ARCHIBALD BOR-. ~ Nevada, h ;
2,
Ov. 24th.
ten days from the service of this writ served
on you in this county, and within twenty days if
served on you in this District and out of this
county, and within forty days if served on youin
the State and out of this District, in an action
commenced on the 14th day of January 4. p. 1862, [
in said court to obtain a deeree of this eourt for
the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage, bearing
te the 10th day of September a. D., 1860, ex.
ted by the said Defendant M. Crowe to Plainthf and for the sale of the premises there
and
in said complaint particularly men r %
eribed, and the aplication ofthe mc noe pe be
“PURE GROUND
JAVA GOFFEE!
Warranted Fresh, kept constantly on hand aud
for sale by
FORTUNE GUES, .
. Commereial Street, NevadaCity. _
Nevada, Oet. 20th, 1861—t¢ ©
80 a aintif! may
have execu the said defenpo pean ny os or ; ndant Plaintiff’s
"TSE, Pasecrsss crest
. large, that he has taken
‘BAILEY HOUSE,
ON BROAD STREET,
NEVADA,
re costae d to rally with —
ae
before the ~
_ Upon reading the affidavit filed in this cause, .
whose Health is Broken
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